Re: Unicode vs ISO DIS 10646 (was universality of Latin-1)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 18:00

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In article <ENAG.91May3200814@maud.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
> a commercial at-sign with acute accent and cedilla below doesn't make
> much sense.  What should a Unicode display device do with that
> sequence of characters?

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It better display it as @ (more or less), because someone's gonna use it.
                        '
If you don't believe that, then consider the use of "!#%^&*|" in C.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"

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Subject: Re: Unicode vs ISO DIS 10646 (was universality of Latin-1)
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